Settlement reached in traffic crash death case

A settlement was approved Monday in Lenawee County Probate Court in a wrongful death claim resulting from a traffic crash in Ohio that caused the death of a Manitou Beach woman.

A judgment for the $100,000 limit on an auto insurance policy was approved by Judge Gregg P. Iddings. The award was divided among family members of Imogene Heady. She died April 22, 2010, from injuries suffered in a Sept. 25, 2009, traffic crash. She was 76.

The car she was riding in collided with another vehicle at an intersection on U.S. 127 near Somers, Ohio, north of Cincinnati. An Ohio State Highway Patrol report said driver Paul Brown, 87, of Addison, admitted being at fault. The two were driving to Florida for the winter, according to the report.